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Table 1 Patients and disease characteristics

From: The impact of HLA-matching on reduced intensity conditioning regimen unrelated donor allogeneic stem cell transplantation for acute myeloid leukemia in patients above 50 years—a report from the EBMT acute leukemia working party

Patient characteristics

HLA 10/10

HLA 9/10

HLA 8/10

p value

Number of patients

2567

723

108

 

Recipient age at SCT (years, range)

61 (50–78)

61 (50–77)

60 (50–73)

0.584

Recipient gender, n (%)

0.707

 Male

1386 (54 %)

387 (53.7 %)

62 (58 %)

 

 Female

1177 (46 %)

334 (46.3 %)

45 (42 %)

 

Year of SCT (median), year (%)

2011 (00–13)

2011 (02–13)

2009 (00–13)

0.001

Interval from diagnosis to SCT (days)

212

250

295

0.0001

Median follow-upa (months, range)

24 (1–150)

24 (1–139)

34 (3–117)

0.042

Donor age (years, range)

33 (16–61)

36 (20–61)

35 (20–55)

0.02

Donor gender, n (%)

<10−4

 Male

1845 (73 %)

463 (65.2 %)

69 (64.5 %)

 

 Female

682 (27 %)

247 (34.8 %)

38 (35.5 %)

 

Female donor to male recipient, n (%)

281 (11.1 %)

106 (15 % )

17 (16 % )

0.01

Diagnosis, n (%)

0.001

 De novo AML

1805 (70.3 %)

527 (72.9 %)

60 (55.6 %)

 

 Secondary AML

762 (29.7 %)

196 (27.1 %)

48 (44.4 %)

 

Cytogenetics in de novo AML, n (% of available data)

0.235

 Good

75 (9.2 %)

15 (5.9 %)

2 (7.1 %)

 

 Intermediate

545 (67.2 %)

183 (72 %)

23 (82 %)

 

 Poor

191 (23.5 %)

56 (22 %)

3 (10.7 %)

 

 Not available/failed

994 (55 %)

273 (51.8 %)

32 (53.3 %)

 

Disease status at SCT, n (%)

   

0.0002

 CR1

1413 (55 %)

333 (46.1 %)

48 (44.4 %)

 

 ≥CR2

504 (19.7 %)

171 (23.6 %)

25 (23.2 %)

 

 Active disease

650 (25.3 %)

219 (30.3 %)

35 (32.4 %)

 

Source of SC, n (%)

0.173

 BM

154 (6 %)

56 (7.8 %)

9 (8.3 %)

 

 PB

2413 (94 %)

667 (92.2 %)

99 (91.7 %)

 

Conditioning, n (%)

0.02

 Chemo alone

1836 (71.5 %)

550 (76.1 %)

84 (77.8 %)

 

 Low TBI

731 (28.5 %)

173 (23.9 %)

24 (22.2 %)

 

In vivo T cell depletion, n (%)

<10−4

 No

672 (26.4 %)

121 (16.9 %)

15 (14.0 %)

 

 ATG

1460 (57.5 %)

468 (65.2 %)

59 (55.1 %)

 

 Campath

409 (16.1 %)

129 (18.0 %)

33 (30.8 %)

 

Post-transplant GVHD prophylaxis

   

0.07

 CsA

504 (19.9 %)

135 (18.8 %)

27 (25.5 %)

 

 CsA/FK 506 + MTX

517 (20.4 %)

177 (24.7 %)

16 (15.1 %)

 

 CsA/FK 506 + MMF

1353 (53.4 %)

353 (49.2 %)

53 (50 %)

 

 Other

160 (6.3 %)

53 (7.4 %)

10 (9.4 %)

 

 Missing

33

5

2

 

Karnosky at SCT, n (%)

   

0.47

 ≤80 %

173 (6.7 %)

42 (5.8 %)

9 (8.4 %)

 

 >80 %

2231 (86.9 %)

641 (88.7 %)

91 (84.2 %)

 

 Missing

163 (6.4 %)

40 (5.5 %)

8 (7.4 %)

 

Patient positive CMV serology, n (%)

1634 (64.9 %)

492 (69.1 %)

67 (63.8 %)

0.10

CMV risk, n (%)

   

0.029

 Low

695 (27.8 %)

155 (21.9 %)

26 (24.8 %)

 

 Intermediate

1072 (42.8 %)

316 (44.7 %)

47 (44.8 %)

 

 High

734 (29.4 % )

236 (33.4 %)

32 (30.5 %)

 
  1. AML acute myeloid leukemia, ATG anti-thymocyte globulin, BM bone marrow, CMV cytomegalovirus, CMV risk low = negative recipient and donor serology, high positive recipient and negative donor serology, intermediate all other combinations, CR complete remission, PB peripheral blood, SC stem cells, SCT stem cell transplantation
  2. aFor patients alive